ПОМЕТКИ НА КНИГЕ К. МАРКСА И Ф. ЭНГЕЛЬСА «НЕИЗДАННЫЕ СТАТЬИ И РЕЧИ (1852, 1853, 1854 гг.)». ХАРЬКОВ. 1919
Date: 1919 (not earlier than)
Source: ru:PSS
Translated by: AI (Claude)

[Editorial notes section begins]

⁹⁶ See letter from F. Engels to F. Sorge of June 3, 1885 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, pp. 277-278).

⁹⁷ See letter from F. Engels to F. Sorge of April 29, 1886 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, pp. 408-409 and this collection, pp. 216-217).

⁹⁸ See letter from F. Engels to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky of February 9, 1887 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, pp. 510-511).

⁹⁹ On pages 260-262 of the book are printed letters from F. Engels to F. Sorge of April 9, April 23, and May 4, 1887 (see K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, pp. 538-540, 543-544, 547-548 and this collection, p. 222).

¹⁰⁰ In a letter to F. Sorge of April 4, 1876 (see K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 34, pp. 142-143) K. Marx conveys the famous thought expressed in N. G. Chernyshevsky's review of the book by H. Carey "Political-Economic Letters to the President of the United States": "The historical path is not the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospect... Who is afraid of being covered with dust and dirtying his boots, let him not undertake public activity" ("Sovremennik", vol. 85, section II: Contemporary Review, January 1861, p. 51).

N. G. Chernyshevsky — great Russian revolutionary democrat, scholar, writer and literary critic; one of the outstanding precursors of Russian social-democracy.

¹⁰¹ See letter from K. Marx to F. Sorge of August 4, 1874 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 33, pp. 532-533).

¹⁰² See letter from F. Engels to F. Sorge of October 5, 1872 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 33, pp. 442-443 and this collection, p. 215).

¹⁰³ See letters from F. Engels to F. Sorge of June 18, 1887 and April 29, 1886 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, pp. 568, 380 and this collection, pp. 222, 216-217).

¹⁰⁴ Reference is made to the following text from F. Engels' letter to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky of January 27, 1887: "When we returned to Germany in spring 1848, we joined the democratic party... we were the most advanced wing of this party, but still its wing" (this collection, p. 221).

¹⁰⁵ See letters from F. Engels to F. Sorge of November 29, 1886, June 18, 1887, August 8, 1887, September 16, 1887, and letter from F. Engels to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky of September 15, 1887 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, pp. 488-490, 568, 578, 589-590, 588 and this collection, pp. 217-219, 222, 222-223, 223).

¹⁰⁶ Reference is made to the following text from F. Engels' letter to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky of December 28, 1886: "Our theory is not a dogma, but an explanation of the process of development, which includes a series of successive phases" (this collection, pp. 219-220).

¹⁰⁷ Reference is made to the following text from F. Engels' letter to F. Sorge of November 29, 1886: "The masses must have time and opportunity to develop, and they will get this opportunity only when they have their own movement — regardless of what form, as long as it is their own movement, in which they will go forward, learning from their own mistakes, from their own bitter experience" (this collection, p. 218).

¹⁰⁸ See letter from F. Engels to F. Sorge of September 16-17, 1886 (K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 36, p. 451 and this collection, p. 217).


NOTES ON THE BOOK BY K. MARX AND F. ENGELS "UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES AND SPEECHES (1852, 1853, 1854)". KHARKOV. 1919¹

[Not earlier than 1919]

[3] The Convention and the ministry of August 10² thus had sufficient time to arm. From August 10 to March 1793 nothing was done, volunteers were barely paid. In March 1793, 300 thousand men were taken under arms — from March to the following March for a whole year the Convention had time and freedom to arm, and 10 months relate to the time when, due to the fall of the Girondists, the revolutionary party was freed from all obstacles. And in a country numbering 25 million inhabitants and having a normal contingent of citizens capable of bearing arms, to gather a million soldiers, of them 750 thousand active combatants, having a year at one's disposal, for this one need not be a sorcerer³.

[5] The Convention owed its salvation solely and exclusively to the disorganization of the coalition, thanks to which it received a year's respite. It was saved in exactly the same way as old Fritz* in the Seven Years' War, as Wellington in Spain in 1809, when the French exceeded him in both quantitative and qualitative terms at least threefold and only paralyzed their colossal force by the fact that after Napoleon's departure the marshals tripped each other up in every possible way⁴.

¹ The published notes were made by V. I. Lenin in F. Engels' article "Prospects for a War of France against the Holy Alliance" — as it is titled in the collection: K. Marx and F. Engels. "Unpublished Articles and Speeches (1852, 1853, 1854)" (Kharkov, 1919), according to which Lenin read it. The correct title of the article: "Possibilities and Prospects of a War of the Holy Alliance against France in 1852" (see K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, 2nd ed., vol. 7, pp. 495-524).

² Reference is made to the ministry of the Girondists, formed after the popular uprising of August 10, 1792.

³ See K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, vol. 7, p. 499.

⁴ See K. Marx and F. Engels. Works, vol. 7, p. 502.

Napoleon I (Bonaparte) — French emperor (1804-1814 and 1815).

* Frederick II.